MACPHIE (MODERN) Choose:By the metre one in 1734 in possession

one in 1734 in possession of George Buchanan

A Baillie tartan is mentioned by Telford Dunbar in his 1962 'History of Highland Dress' when he states that it appeared in William Wilson's stock list of 1800

The association was not always a happy one and the 'broken' MacEwans settled in various parts of Lennox

'The Tartans of the Clans of Scotland' (1886) says

MACPHIE (MODERN) Choose:By the metre one in 1734 in possessionMacPhies, MacFie, or MacDuffie held lands on the Isle of Colonsay until the mid seventeenth century but were later scattered by the clearances. They were the hereditary Keeper of the Records to the Lords of the Isles. The present Commander, Sandy MacPhie, lives in Queensland, Australia. The resemblance of this tartan to that of the Camerons may denote the MacFies' allegiance to that clan on the mainland after they were dispersed from Colonsay.